China's computing-power buildout is delivering compounding returns as it links with other infrastructure, the People's Daily Overseas Edition argues, noting that The Economist recently highlighted China's 'six networks' — including the compute grid, water grid and new power grid — whose combined benefit exceeds the sum of the parts.
The commentary traces China's computing-power international cooperation: self-driving taxis in eastern Switzerland will run on Chinese technology; Chinese AI models appear on ads at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport; and partnerships extend to Kenya, Uzbekistan and Egypt. Multiple foreign outlets describe computing power as a shareable development tool rather than a closed asset.
China's open-source approach lets developers from Nairobi to Cairo localize base models to their own languages, laws and social realities at low cost — what one Kenyan scholar calls 'the perfect antidote to digital colonialism.'
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition (Nov 2, 2026)
